NOT WANTED.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1921, Page 5

NOT WANTED.

MISSION TO AUSTRALIA. DELEGATES NOT ADMITTED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Sydney, Jan. 11. Osmond Thomas Grattan Esmond arrived by the Makura claiming to be on a highly important diplomatic mission in connection with the Home Rule movement in Ireland, but was refused permission to land at any port in Australia. He is the heir of Sir Thomas Esmonde, an ex-member of the House of Commons for North Wexford. Mr. Esmond declined to take the oath of allegiance. He said he was here in connection with Irish affairs, but declined to state what those affairs were. He is taking a legal opinion on the question of the Customs authorities not allowing him to land. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Received Jan. I'2, 10.15 p.m. Sydney, Jan. 12. The regulations under which Esmonde was refused permission to land . were gazetted on Monday last, making it appear that action in his case was determined upon prior to the arrival of the Makura. ' Ministers tin Melbourne declined to make any comment on the case.—Aus.N.Z. Cable -4ssn. AN ENVOY FROM IRELAND. \ PASSENGER BY MAKURA. When the R.M.S. Makura arrived in Auckland from Vancouver on Thursday last the police boarded the steamer and served a notice under section 5 of the Undesirable Immigrants’ Exclusion Act, 1919, on a saloon passenger, who was bound for Sydney, prohibiting his landing in New Zealand. Under ordinary circumstances the passenger in question would have been permitted to land, but it is stated that inquiries elicited the information that during the voyage of the Makura from Vancouver he exhibited in the course of some conversation with some of the passengers, papers which showed him to be connected with the Irish Diplomatic Mission. It is understood that seven of the passengers of the steamer complained to the police about the attitude of the man concerning his mission.